Lines and Dots
What can music do that words can’t? What can be expressed in language better than in sound? In this series, Maurice Walters (author and educationalist) and Christopher Sparkhall (Compser and Musical Director) take a thematic look across history and examine the ways in which words and music have been employed by humanity to approach some of the most complex and emotive concepts of existence.
Episodes
![Lines and Dots - Episode 7 (Glory and Honour)](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/18674376/Apple_Logo_f8tgwk_300x300.jpg)
Friday Jun 21, 2024
Friday Jun 21, 2024
Maurice and Chris explore the concept of Glory and Honour throughout history from Shakespearean Sonnets through the book of Esther and then to a pair of hymns which could not really be more different!
First recorded on 20th June 2024.
![Lines and Dots - Episode 6 (Nostalgia)](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/18674376/Apple_Logo_f8tgwk_300x300.jpg)
Friday Jun 14, 2024
Friday Jun 14, 2024
In this episode, themed around Nostalgia, Maurice and Chris look at the wistful melancholy of Rachmaninov, the genius of John Williams, the grandeur of Lucan's Pharsalia and the subtle and exquisite beauty of 'The Remains of the Day'.
First recorded on 14th June 2024.
![Lines and Dots - Episode 5 (Hope & Optimism)](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/18674376/Apple_Logo_f8tgwk_300x300.jpg)
Monday Jun 10, 2024
Monday Jun 10, 2024
Following on from the gloom of death in Episode 4, Maurice and Chris seek out new hope and optimism in this week's broadcast. Considering the construction of hope in Hesiod's account of Pandora, trying to understand Gene Roddenberry's world-view through Star Trek The Next Generation and unpicking the brilliance of Puccini - the stylophone obligato fits right in!
Originally recorded on 7th June 2024.
![Lines and Dots - Episode 4 (Death)](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/18674376/Apple_Logo_f8tgwk_300x300.jpg)
Friday May 24, 2024
Friday May 24, 2024
Chris and Maurice enjoy a brutal dance-off (on an intellectual level) in this week's episode, which takes the theme of 'death'. They consider a haunting sea-shanty, the enduring power of the words and music of settings of the dies irae and a poignant poem by Michael Rosen.
First recorded on 23rd May 2024.
![Lines and Dots - Episode 3 (Devotion)](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/18674376/Apple_Logo_f8tgwk_300x300.jpg)
Monday May 20, 2024
Monday May 20, 2024
In this episode, Maurice and Chris consider the theme of devition through the lens of Akhenaten's religious fervour, Bach's musical genius, mass singing of a spiritual and Cardinal Newman's poetry. All of this, of course, through a badly applied rugby metaphor.
Originally recorded on 16th May 2024.
![Lines and Dots - Episode 2 (The Individual and the State)](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/18674376/Apple_Logo_f8tgwk_300x300.jpg)
Monday May 13, 2024
Monday May 13, 2024
Chris and Maurice engage in conversations around the antagonisms that arise in music and literature that looks at the role of the individual against the role of the state. They cover Sophoclean tragedy, Beethoven's love and loathing of Napoleon, Margaret Thatcher's interview for Woman's Own and the subjunctively imperfect music of Sandi Thom.
![Lines and Dots - Episode 1 (Good and Evil)](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/18674376/Apple_Logo_f8tgwk_300x300.jpg)
Monday May 13, 2024
Monday May 13, 2024
In this pilot episode, Maurice and Chris discuss musical and literary responses to good and evil, starting out with an extract from Cicero's speech against Catiline, moving through Mozart's Magic Flute, Mussorgsky's witch-based nationalism and ending with lines from John Donne.
Originally recorded on Thursday 2nd May 2024.
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